I tried acode, quickedit, markor, squircle CE, and numerous others.

Isn’t this like a basic thing, to sort?

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You can do this in vim, which you can run on Android.

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Do you? I’ve tried. Not fun. I use vim everyday on my workstation. On Android tiny keyboard, hard pass.

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VS Code can sort lines (all or selected), I use it often too.

Ah sorry, I just saw it’s for android - I’d choose the termux approach with sort file.txt.

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There is always the web version that also runs on Android: https://vscode.dev/

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I use jove (a small, lightweight emacs) within Termux, and M-X filter-region through sort

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I see. I switched from emacs to vim years ago and now I’ve forgotten most of the key chords in emacs. Nevertheless, seems like an awful way to edit files on a small android device. I tried vim for android and it was quite challenging. Not something I want to repeat.

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With “Unexpected Keyboard” (from f-droid) it’s ok. I’ve come to expect that there’s a basic choice between easy, with GUI, and powerful (like “sort a region of lines”), which is only GUI if you’ve got a powerful GUI, like plan 9. Otherwise, powerful means keyboard-driven.

When I’ve got a long, complex edit, I’ve got a nice, pocket-size, battery-powered folding bluetooth keyboard; combined with the kickstands on my phone cases, it is pretty good.

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You mean sorting your documents by name/size/modified date?

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No, sorting text in the document. Sort all lines in document.

From this:

 Paper

 Altitude

 A better book

To this:

 A better book

 Altitude 

 Paper
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Maybe you want a spreadsheet app instead.

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or termux and then doing a sort input_file.txt

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No, looking for a text editor. Seems simple enough and it’s very useful.

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